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No. 240,596. Pa't c n'ted April 26, 1881.

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UNrrao STATES PATENT GFFIcE.

ELBERT D. LARAWAY AND FRED O. ROCKWELL, OF HARTFORD, CONN.

DISPLAY-TRAY MOLDED FROM PAPER-PULP.

SPECIFICATION forming part" of Letters Patent No. 240,596, dated April 26, 1881.. Application filed September 17, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ELBERT D. LARAWAY and FRED O. ROCKWELL, of Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Display-Trays Molded from Paper- Pulp, of which the following is a description, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, where v Figure 1 is a view of a tray made in accordance with our invention. Fig. 2 is a view of the same in cross-section on plane a: w.

The invention or improvement consists in a tray for displaying those articles of which silver-plated table-knives are a type and sample in stores and the like. The tray is made of pulp molded to shape, and with the bottoms of the sockets for the displayed articles made upon an angle or incline between flat or horizontal and vertical, so that the finish of the surface of the articles, the trade names and marks thereon, and the ornamentation thereon, may be displayed to better ad vantage than if the article were in a flat or a vertical position.

These display-trays are now usually made of wood and covered with black velvet or the like. The tray of molded pulp will not warp like the wood tray, readily takes the impression of the exact shape of the displayed article, while in the wood this shape can, Within practical limits of cost, only be approximately approached, and then only at considerable cost, and the pulp tray, taking, as it does, good finish and any color with hardly any extra expense in the making, does not need the textile or other cover, like the wood. The said inclined shape of the bottom of the socket for the displayed article is seen in Fig. 2. When a tray having the bottom of these sockets thus inclined is used in a glass show-case upon a store-counter the contained articles are much better displayed to the gaze of customers than if the articles lay either fiat or vertical in the tray. In a trayof molded pulp the socketstake this incline as readilyand cheaply as any other shape.

We claim as our invention- A display-tray of molded pulp, having the bottoms of the sockets therein on an incline, substantially as shown and described.

ELBERT D. LARAWAY. FRED G. ROCKWELL.

Witnesses:

WM. SIMoNDs, JAMES J. GREENE. 

